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41. Innovate Like A Start-Up 5/20/2019

    As healthcare moves from major structural technology implementations, like server networking and EHRs, that cost millions and take months or years to complete to more specialized projects, there needs to be a change in how the industry thinks about technology implementations. Here are a few ideas embraced by many technology startups that know what it’s like to balance priorities and execute flawlessly with a small team.

42. Palmetto Health — Discharge Redesign Leads To Improved Efficiency On The Journey To Improved Patient Flow 5/31/2018

    At Palmetto Health System, our vision is to be remembered by each patient as providing the care and compassion we want for our families and ourselves. With close to 1,500 beds, 15,000 team members, and facilities that were typically operating at 95 percent capacity, it became apparent that we needed to find a way to improve efficiency by improving the way patients were flowing through our system.

43. It's Time To Rip Off The ETL Band-Aid 3/3/2016

    It’s time to remove the ETL (extract-transform-load) band-aid, STAT. ETL served an admirable purpose for the last two decades, but today’s volume and complexity of data are overwhelming ETL tools. These technologies that were supposed to solve data problems have now become a hindrance — and it’s time to let them go.

44. AHIMA 2009 Video Booth Visits 10/27/2009
    Ken Congdon, chief editor at Health IT Outcomes, shares conversations with vendors while at AHIMA 2009.
45. A Simplified Approach Is The Best When Recruiting Technical Talent 9/12/2018

    For technology employers, the recruiting game is fierce, especially for smaller firms that compete with industry giants such as IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Accenture and Cisco. How do smaller contenders take on this ever-growing challenge to attract and retain technical talent? To be successful, it's essential to focus the talent recruiting message on what makes one’s firm different, including what a technically talented person might get from a smaller firm that they may not get elsewhere.

46. Preventing Medical Identity Theft 9/21/2009
    Medical identity theft is also a very dangerous issue. This type of theft can expose a person’s sensitive personal information which can then be used by fraudsters to get medical treatments, benefits, prescription drugs and generally defraud the medical system. By Shred-It
47. Building And Managing A Rock-Solid Security Plan 8/31/2015

    Not only are security threats increasing in sophistication and frequency, they now have a whole host of targets: everything from traditional desktop PCs to smartphones and tablets to Web apps.

48. How Hospitals In Contingency Mode Can Leverage Time To Get EHRs Right 5/18/2020

    The phrase “time is money” is credited to Benjamin Franklin, who used it in a 1748 essay, Advice to a Young Tradesman. These words still ring true, especially in the medical profession where time is money for providers. For forward-thinking hospitals, time is also an opportunity to get things right.

49. Silver Cross Hospital Increases Patient Satisfaction With Kiosk Technology 1/18/2011
    This case study highlights how a self-service kiosk helped Silver Cross Hospital reduce patient wait times. Since implementing the solution Silver Cross has improved its Press Ganey wait-time rankings from the 80th to the 92nd percentile.
50. Surgical Services Firm Speeds Search And Retrieval Of Vital Documents With KnowledgeLake 1/12/2017

    AMSURG has a large presence nationwide. It has more than 250 ASCs in 34 states and provides physician services in 24 states, employing more than 2,800 physicians and other healthcare professionals. This vast network of healthcare facilities and practitioners generates an immense amount of financial documentation, particularly at the end of each month. The methods that the company used in the past for backing up its accounting documents were outdated and inefficient.